Creating a Guessing Game in Rust with Ui

I am learning rust using the official Rust Programming Language Book. In chapter 2 it talks about creating a guessing game. It is a terminal game. I wanted to have a simple ui to the game. So I searched for some and found Slint. The site looked cool ! I got interested. The syntax looked similar to the react library that I am somewhat familiar with, so I thought I would give it a try.

Here is the Github Project Guess Me.

Slint is quite straight forward to use. As this game is really simple in logic and doesn't have a state management requirement, I thought it would be a good fit. It took some extra work to get things working for the first time.

Such As:

1. A build script build.rs is needed to make sure the slint files are usable in the rust file.
2. The intellisense worked after the first build. reminded me of Avalonia UI in dotnet.
3. The first build takes quite a while.
4. In windows a release build always opens a console window. According to the documentation of slint this is a Windows specific thing.
   • Here is the official link about this topic how to resolve the issue. Handle the Console Window
   • Issue can be found in the Github repo #3235

The youtube channel of slint is getting more updates recently, which is always amazing.